Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 16, No. 534.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 07:56:26 +0000
From: "Miran Hladnik" <miran.hladnik@guest.arnes.si>
Subject: To write concisely
As the editor of a voluminous Sammelband, containing 80 articles on the
Slovene novel, I am faced with a numerous and persistent demand, expressed
by individual authors, that I should allow them to exceed 30.000 characters
posted as a maximum length for the publication. Two of them are excellent,
indeed. I would very much appreciate the experience of editors in other
disciplines and countries, concerning formal editorial postulations. I
assume that the tendency to write lenghthy papers is more common in
philology (or in the humanities on the whole?) than in other disciplines.
Besides this, too familiar conditions in a small size national philology
could be another reason, that individual respected authors expect privileged
treatment.
Miran Hladnik
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